On March 1, the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade will fill the
streets of inner-city Sydney in a confident assertion of all people's right
to choose and live their sexual orientation, and to mark the political
struggles that have won
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BY
ALISON DELLIT
The February 14-16 world-wide peace protests starkly exposed the
gulf between the warmongering governments and media of Australia, the United
States and Britain on the one hand, and the populations of those countries
on the
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — The state Labor government of Premier Jim Bacon decided on February 3 to introduce new laws to allow the $30 million Meander Dam project to go ahead. Previously, the Resource Management and Planning Appeals Tribunal
BY
GRANT COLEMAN
On March 5, high school, campus and TAFE students across Australia
will act together with US students in refusing to attend classes. We will
be calling for books not bombs and demanding that Australian troops be
brought
By Ahmed Ben Bella, George Galloway & John Rees
At least 13 Egyptian activists against the war on Iraq have been arrested. Ten remain in custody; 11 of the 13 arrested have been tortured.
We have received a plea for solidarity from a broad range
AMEC workers victory
MELBOURNE — Workers employed by AMEC, the company contracted to install new generators at the Carrum Downs water treatment plant, are back at work. They won the reinstatement of eight workers, including the Australian
BY SUE BOLTON
MELBOURNE — Armed federal police and immigration officers carried out a Rambo-style raid on an inner-city building site on February 20.
The police and immigration officers stormed the Bayview building site in Port Melbourne at
BY
PAT BREWER
Is the Democratic Socialist Party a revolutionary feminist party?
Not really, according to Alison Thorne, a leading member of the Freedom
Socialist Party (FSP). The DSP, Thorne argued in her contribution on the
future of the
BY GILLIAN DAVY
MELBOURNE — RMIT University has made a landmark commitment to support refugees and asylum seekers, with a range of bold initiatives being implemented this year. RMIT plans to urge other Australian universities, through the
BY ROHAN PEARCE
"There will not be a safe place in Baghdad", an unnamed Pentagon official told the US news network CBS on January 24."You're sitting in Baghdad and all of a sudden you're the general and 30 of you at division headquarters have been
Keep protesting!
Please do not let up on our protest against war with Iraq. If Howard thinks those protesting at the weekend {February 14-16] are in the minority. Let's have another and another until he takes notice.
The hide of the man!
Peter
Wollongongs peace train and IWD plans
BY MARG PERROTT
WOLLONGONG After the 5000-strong February 8 anti-war rally here, a
large crowd was expected to travel from Wollongong to Sydney on February
16. Although originally NOWAR had
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